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Head of Davis Camp Liaison Board Senior Colonel Dao Chi Cong speaks at the event. |
The event saw the presence of around 80 delegates who are members of Davis Camp Liaison Board.
Speaking at the meeting, Head of Davis Camp Liaison Board Senior Colonel Dao Chi Cong recalled that after the Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam (Paris Peace Accords) was signed in Paris by four parties on January 27, 1973, a four-party military joint committee was established to ensure the implementation of the agreement.
Davis Camp was chosen as the headquarters of the Four-Party Joint Military Committee and then the headquarters of the Two-Party Joint Military Committee (the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) from January 28, 1973 to April 30, 1975. In the context that the U.S. and the Saigon government tried to sabotage the implementation of the agreement, based on the terms of the signed agreement, the two delegations of Vietnam won the victory in the field of legal diplomacy and public opinion and managed to turn the camp into a "frontier battlefield" in the heart of Saigon.
Over the past 20 years, Davis Camp Liaison Board has gathered more than 800 members from the two military delegations (four- and two-party). From 2005, the liaison board proposed awarding the "For contribution to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Vietnam" insignia to its members. The board has also encouraged its staff and members to provide documents, information and memories to write about the years when they struggled to actualize the Paris Agreement.
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The liaison board's members receive the insignia. |
Former Head of Davis Camp Liaison Board Senior Colonel Nguyen Van Kha said that according to the agreement, the two-side military joint delegation would arrive in Davis Camp to cooperate with the four-side delegation to ensure the implementation of military-related terms of Paris Agreement. During 823 days and nights, the delegations resolutely debated and successfully completed the assigned tasks.
According to Senior Colonel Nguyen Van Kha, Vietnam's best and effective art of war was combining the struggle in military, political, and diplomatic fields.
At the event, delegates expected that Davis Camp will be recognized as a national historical relic site.
At the meeting, Davis Camp Liaison Board, authorized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, handed over the decision on awarding "For contribution to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Vietnam" insignia to six individuals.
Translated by Tran Hoai